finger-trek, noun
- Origin:
- Partial translation of Afrikaans vingertrek.
vingertrek Also figurative (see quotation 1988).
1958 A. Jackson Trader on Veld 45A game called ‘finger trek’ (pulling the finger), was also popular with our farmers, and many a time..I was challenged to hook my middle finger around that of a burly customer, only to find myself being pulled across bodily like a sack of flour in this unequal and rather painful tug-of-war.
1988 Sunday Tribune 31 Jan. (Today) 7The already discredited tricameral system is coming further apart at the seams as the Great All-In-Non-Stop Arm-Wrestling Power-Play Finger-Trek, Name-Calling Rat-On-Your-Pals Extravanganza proceeds apace.
vingertrek Also figurative (see quotation 1988).
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